| 12:00am | Gaming Humanity in Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji | | | | After many recommendations and reading lots of hype, I watched Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji. The unsurprising part: it’s rather very good. I’ll get to that in a moment. The surprising part: I didn’t enjoy it as much as I intended. For such a thoroughly human work, I didn’t form... | | |
| 10:06am | July Summary | | | | I must say, that we’ve got ourselves an awesome Summer Season here. Sure, there aren’t many series, but a significant majority of the new series succeed at what they intend to do. There may not be a lot of shows with awesome and ambitious story-lines, but in terms of slice of life and characterization,... | | |
| 12:00am | GAR in my Hospital Drama: Team Medical Dragon | | | | I have been a casual viewer of hospital dramas since the ’90s, from shows like ER, Chicago Hope, to watching the occasional episode of House; though I’ve seen all five seasons of Grey’s Anatomy. I can’t say I’m a big fan though, as much as I can enjoy these shows when... | | |
| 9:48am | 07-Ghost - 11 | | | | Oh my god. I couldn’t stop laughing this episode. Even five minutes after that doll went down I was still snickering like an idiot. It’s been a while since I laughed so much at one single joke. I still keep seeing Frau running around like crazy with that very weird laugh of his. I’m... | | |
| 2:25am | One Outs - Closing Thoughts | | | | Although it has, in its last leg, been somewhat marred by slow fansubbing, One Outs has proven to be a consistent source of entertainment throughout its 24 episode run, and it saddens me to say a poignant farewell to it. While I’m still in that fallout state you feel after finishing a satisfying series,... | | |
| 7:21pm | Slice of life | | | | I know it has been a long time since I published anything, but I hope you haven’t given up on me just yet. There is warmth in these embers still, I can feel it. I just need stoke them up is all, with a bit of hard work and guts. The stupid thing is, it’s not as though I’ve stopped... | | |
| 11:45am | Major Review - 72,5/100 | | | | I’ve been looking forward to watch the Major series for a while now, and with this I finally managed to check out the first season. The baseball series form a truly underrated genre in anime, with most people getting turned off because they don’t know anything about the games. Well, let... | | |
| 6:30pm | Cokematic on Hockey anime |  | | | I laughed. One note though, the sport’s lack of popularity is no impediment. Sure, popularity won’t hurt. Witness the endless progression of baseball anime: Big Windup, One Outs and so on. But it’s not like Mahjong is the national sport of Japan. | | |
| 10:04am | Why do People Like Saki? WHY?? | | | | Now, it has come to my attention to while people are flaming Shangri-La, many are also praising Saki. Both of these shows are by GONZO. So if people hate GONZO, they should hate Saki right? Apparently not. I fail to understand what these people who like Saki (and who presumably are the people who adore... | | |
| 4:35pm | One Outs Strikes Out | | | | And with that, my weekly must-watch list is reduced to one. Major.This scene reminds me of a certain someoneOne Outs has been a really enjoyable 25 weeks. I’m haven’t watched too many sports anime, and with the exception of Eyeshield 21, of all that I’ve watched has been Baseball,With... | | |
| 9:17am | One Outs Review - 80/100 | | | | In a way, One outs is much like Death Note or Code Geass: it’s a show that isn’t exactly smart, but loves to make others think that it’s the smartest kid on the block. It comes from the creators of Akagi and Kaiji, meaning that we get lots of mind games surrounding a god-like character,... | | |
| 2:35pm | March Summary | | | | An interesting month this time. It featured a lot of very awesome finales, but also quite a few disappointing or lacking endings, unfortunately. What surprised me is that most of the shows whose endings went right are the ones who still have some sort of second season or OVA waiting, or at least whose... | | |
| 11:38am | This Season Has been One Big Letdown. | | | | Anime that tries and fails is still infinitely more interesting than anime that just sticks to the same old formulas, be it moe-mongering, robo-shouting or power levels. I just completed a marathon of Flag, which is by far the most visually creative and detailed anime I’ve ever seen. As I know... | | |
| 11:06pm | Hey Ladies, Check Me Out I’m the Pitcher | | | | So ladies who read Ogiue Maniax, I have a question for you: Has the One Outs opening worked on any of you or any girls you know? So we have this show whose full title is One Outs - Nobody wins, but I! It is, to sum it up, “Akagi + Baseball.” And it’s a rad show full of tests of will... | | |
| 12:06pm | February Summary | | | | A bit of a boring list this time perhaps, since it looks mostly the same as last month’s with perhaps a few small differences. Nevertheless, this was a very good month. The winter season has proven to be an excellent one, and quite a few series spent this month getting even better than they already... | | |
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